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Hey guys, time for another update on ‘The Odd Lot’ as we are tearing through this.

Thought I would put another update on as I’ve had surprisingly (well maybe not too much as the book is awesome) a lot of people comment and ask for a bit more information on the story and so here I am, updating and even showing you THE COVER!

This book as mentioned in a previous post HERE, was inspired by a song from Stanley Odd.

It’s about a group of teens and young adults whose DNA strands change after swimming in nuclear waste at Gare Loch next to Faslane Naval Base giving them powers.

Having gone back and reworked both the script and the art, Pete and myself have nearly completed the pitch which we will use for publishers to see.

Here is a look at the cover with logo I created and a sneak peek at some of the panels and style of art you can expect to see inside the book.

Now these panels haven’t been coloured yet as all we have to do for the pitch is colouring and lettering 🙂

It has come around and actually worked out better for us that we did take a break from the comic.

When we started the book over a year ago both of us in “comics” was just getting going and ended up with us both having a bunch of other stuff to do as well, this book is a labour of love and a story I absolutely adore, and so what happened was when we revisited the story at the end of last month it was deemed we both thought we could do a lot better and so we decided to rip it up and start again.

A rewrite, new character designs and basically it is all looking AMAZING.

I was happy with how it was all looking before but Pete is knocking these character designs out the park and we are BACK IN BUSINESS!!!

Here is the new character design for Stanley.

And here is a new shot of the group together 😀

Super happy to be sharing this information and will hopefully have a little bit more news on the project I can share soon, don’t want to give away too much just now 🙂

You can read more on ‘The Odd Lot’ from a post I put up February of last year, and although it feels like this has been a bit of a trek to get this book going we are heading in the right direction, we are much happier with how we are handling the book now as well 🙂

As I have mentioned a few times previous, I am working on a project called ‘The Odd Lot’ with artist extraordinaire and all round awesome dude Pete Jones.

The comic is coming along great now, from being just conversations on what we would like to work on together to having a full story idea, plot etc.

The first arc idea is jotted down now and I am quarter of the way through writing the first draft for issue one.

It’s been a busy but good time just now for me as issue one ‘And They Come’ starts looking more and more like being finishing on time, first draft of issue two on the same comic is a quarter of the way done, along with me learning to draw and not to mention the comic I am speaking about in this post ‘The Odd Lot’.

The Odd Lot is about a group of teens/young adults who gain superpowers after their DNA alters from swimming in nuclear waste at Gare Loch where Faslane and the Naval Base in Scotland is situated.

We get power discovery, action scenes, friendships, romance and a bad ass super villain.

There is a lot more to it than that but if you can imagine a comic that tries to get the feel of Kick-Ass mixed with the attitude of Misfits and is based in Scotland then you have an idea of what we are going for.

The team consists of six troubled peeps who are extremely fun to write 🙂

And look at the rough penciled character designs that I got from Pete last night which I am ECSTATIC about, he says will have some better versions next week with some thumbnails but it gives you an idea 🙂

I would like to say that i got the idea and inspiration from a song called ‘The Numbness’ by one of my favourite bands ‘Stanley Odd’, more specifically the line

“I developed gills and my DNA strand changed since I started swimming at Faslane.”.

I have told them about the inspiration and idea to which they have been unbelievably cool and encouraging with the idea (thank god).

Will post later on in the week about my drawing as i had a bit of a breakthrough.

The aim is to have issue one of ‘And They Come’ complete and printed for ‘Glasgow Comic Con’ on the 4th and 5th of July and launch it there 🙂

So far the comic is close to about a sixth complete and i expect it to ramp up now the new year has arrived.

Also…………..

The project i mentioned that i was working on with Pete Jones, the guy responsible for our alternative cover has been OFFICIALLY started TODAY.

Its still early doors and we’ve been passing story ideas back and forth for a while now and we have a great story idea that i will share soon and i expect to be started writing this before January is out.